decentralized and democratic differential defensive acceleration・ https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2023/11/27/techno_optimism.html#dacc “My techno-optimism” · https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html “d/acc: one year later”

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d/acc: one year later

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d/acc: one year later

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2025/01/05/dacc2.html

Cypherpunks tattooed encryption algos b/c code was illegal

They printed banned algos in books & built tools to resist surveillance

B/c of them, encryption is legal

Roman built one, & now he faces prison

Support him if you can. The EF will match:

Cypherpunks tattooed encryption algos b/c code was illegal

They printed banned algos in books & built tools to resist surveillance

B/c of them, encryption is legal

Roman built one, & now he faces prison

Support him if you can. The EF will match:
https://juicebox.money/@defend-roman-storm

We’re co-hosting a hackathon this Thursday at Edge Esmeralda with Imbue AI!

It kicks off with talks from leading AI safety & d/acc thinkers and dives into building tools that protect, empower, and elevate humans in an AI-dominated world.

Read on + get involved 👇

d/acc discovery day cohosted by @octant talk from @vitalik.eth explaining what d/acc is!

so interesting hearing @vitalik.eth  speak on the purpose of d/acc! 

@octant

Slides from the TLDR GDrive -- all done in Cursor btw, hadn't written latex in a few yrs.

https://t.co/zSE0ZhHs60 https://t.co/MGJe3MoEvl

https://x.com/gakonst/status/1922058758974239194?s=46

anyone applying for a d/acc grant?

https://www.shiftgrants.org/

Excited to speak at the D/acc Human-Aligned Tech Workshop with @holonym! Join us to explore the future of human-first technology.

See you there!

privacy, security, and cryptography

https://holonym.id

Excited to speak at the D/acc Human-Aligned Tech Workshop with @holonym! Join us to explore the future of human-first technology.

See you there!

https://lu.ma/tfe9k2gf

How can we steer technological advancement in a defensive and decentralized approach?

At Edge City Austin, @vitalik.eth shared his updated vision for D/ACC, a framework for accelerating frontier technologies while maintaining safeguards.

Watch Vitalik's talk on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04BacdXnNuQ

(We’re funding d/acc projects, more info in next post)

Free markets, strong governance, social safety nets, and innovation have driven prosperity in the physical world

My dream is that we can recreate it in the digital world where it doesn’t matter where you’re born anyone can prosper

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这里需要先做个重要的纠正：d/acc 不是 de-acceleration，是 decentralized defensive acceleration 😛

这个是重要的，因为这个世界里确实有人支持deceleration，degrowth等等，但是我觉得这种方向是错误的，在和平的世界里会延误重要的医疗和基础设施的提升让更多人受伤，在现在的更危险的世界，如果不加速，就会被愿意加速的人吃掉

decentralized和defensive technology 需要跟其他技术竞争。如果剑快速进步，但是盾不进步，世界会变越来越危险。如果中心化技术快速进步，但是去中心化技术不进步，世界会越来越中心化。所以我们需要counterbalance这些趋势。区块链是这个故事的一部分，但是只是一部分，还有区块链之外的去中心化（比如，p2p网络），还有软件和硬件的安全（数字世界的“盾"），还有生物领域的很多事情，等等

We are launching the SHIFT Grants Program to fund d/acc projects.

With anchor funding from Vitalik Buterin (@vitalik.eth), Trent McConaghy, ASI Alliance / Ocean Protocol Foundation & Yonatan Ben Shimon

How you can get involved👇🌱

We're launching a d/acc grants program with funding from Vitalik and some other great folks.

Would love if folks can suggest teams/projects that would benefit.

This would make for a good d/acc protocol name 

The aiaiyo handshake protocol

Alignment cultists would hate it

What are you favorite d/acc products and/or protocols? What are some things you'd like to see?

Any interest in a d/acc meet up in NYC during FarCon (May 1-4ish)?